Matplotlib AttributeError: module 'matplotlib.cbook' has no attribute '_define_aliases'

Question

When trying to plot a graph on jupyter with pyplot I am running the following code:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3,4])
plt.ylabel(\'some num         


        

Answer 1

One thing you could do to guarantee the desinstallation is delete the folder of matplotlib. In Windows you may found in:

C:\Users\YOUR_USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\YOUR_PYTHON_VERSION\Lib\site-packages

If you have a folder named 'matplotlib' delete it and them reinstall the package.

Answer 2

I had this exact error .The problem was that 2 packages of matplotlib was installed one by conda and one by pip

To test for this:

$ conda list matplotlib

matplotlib 2.0.2 np113py35_0 matplotlib 2.1.1

Problem! Fix:

$ pip uninstall matplotlib

Probably a good idea to force matplotlib upgrade to the version pip wanted:

$ conda install matplotlib=2.1.1

Answer 3

I had exactly the same error after installing scikit. The workaround for that was to upgrade pip using the following command first before installing any other packages.

!pip install pip --upgrade